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Researchers in search of immigration records are often not aware of the diverse records created at the provincial level. This booklet is designed to provide an overview of immigration records created by and for the Province of Ontario in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Table of Contents:

Evolution of Responsibility for Emigrants in Ontario

British Records: Military & Colonial Office

Military Settling Department

Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada

Civil Secretary

Crown Land Records

Emigrant Agents

The Emigrant Office

Bureau of Agriculture [Dept. of Agriculture] (Canada West): 1852-1867

Department of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works: 1867-1877

Immigration Branch 1869-1874

Records of the Toronto Emigration Office

Correspondence ~ Letterbooks

Toronto Office Assisted Immigration Registers

Toronto Office Arrival and Destination Registers

Toronto Emigrant Office Financial Records (1831-1879)

Toronto Convalescent and Fever Hospital (1847-1848)

Report of the Inspection of Children (1875, 1886)

Toronto Emigrant Office Records Microfilm Listing

Ontario Department of Immigration Records

The Evolution of Ontario's Immigration Department

Records of the Department of Immigration

Passage Bonus Receipts (1873-1875)

Refund Bonus Certificates (1873-1874)

Applications for Refund Bonus (1869-73, 1874-76)

Six Dollar Bonus Warrants (1875)

Arrival & Destination Records (1862-1881)

Free Railway Pass Records (1869,1872-73,1879)

Accounting Records (1869-1901)

Miscellaneous Records (1869-1896)

Additional Sources for Ontario Immigrants

Homechildren

British Emigration Files

Scottish Emigration Files

Irish Emigration

German Immigration

Records of Refugees

Jewish Immigration Records

Internet Resources

50 pp/ 8.5" X 11" / staple bound (spine)/ ISBN 1-894378-73-3

About Fawne Stratford-Devai
Fawne Stratford-Devai's work on Land Records and early Ontario records is well known in the genealogy community. A published author of several Canadian and UK research books, she has also contributed articles to the Ontario Genealogical Society's newsletter "Families" as well as writing for the online family history newsletter the "Global Gazette". Biography